Simpson, Carolyn

Describes the problem-solving skills needed to bring about non-violent resolutions to conflict, explains how to use those skills to settle disputes, and discusses the importance of peer mediation programs.

Discusses how to develop appropriate negotiating strategies and describes how they can be used at school and on the job.

Provides information about eating disorders; examines the symptoms and causes of compulsive eating; discusses the consequences of the disorder; and considers solutions to the problem.

A guide for teenage parents trying to raise their babies while living at home with their parents.

Discusses such situations as physical abuse, natural disasters, wars, and violence, that can cause stressful responses and describes ways of dealing with these delayed reactions to trauma.

Discusses sleeping disorders, with information on dreaming and dream interpretation, insomnia, sleep apnea, restless leg syndrome, and the types of problems associated with NREM and REM sleep distrubances, also provides help to determine if you have a problem, and how to go about fixing it.

Discusses career possibilities in the field of office work.

Provides information and advice on how to cope as a teenage mother before and after the baby is born.

Explains what methadone is, what it does, the pros and cons of its use as a treatment for heroin addiction, and possible abuses of this drug.

Explains what asthma is, how it is diagnosed and treated, and how it can affect a person's life.